Childhood and family life -- School - and the wider world -- Survivors, Jew baiters and the search for solutions -- A decade of growth and change -- My vocation as a Trade Unionist -- My apprenticeship: learning on the factory floor -- A historic moment and new trajectory -- Building SACTU -- On trial for high treason -- Celebrations, detention and exile -- Back to front -- Taking on a new role.
Summary:
"In this unique memoir and personal reckoning, Leon Levy chronicles his early life, family background and experience of political activism. Back to the Front provides an insider account of his apprenticeship on the factory floor, and recounts the task of founding, building and directing the South African Congress of Trade Unions, as well as return to South Africa and a new era at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)."-- Back cover .
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